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Mike Brown chats with Kobe Bryant during the Lakers' 99-91 loss to the Dallas Mavericks in their home opener.

Unhappy with their dismal start, the Lakers have fired Mike Brown as their head coach five games into the current season.

The Lakers have not made any official announcement about the move (GM Mitch Kupchak will address media at 12:30 p.m.), but several reports said Brown's agent, Warren LeGarie, confirmed his client has been relieved of his coaching duties.

In a few minutes, Paul Piece -- who celebrated his 1,000th game as a Boston Celtic in the past week -- will come home again to get booed, in a nationally televised matchup at Staples Center.

The man Lakers fans love to hate grew up in Inglewood, just like former Lakers star Byron Scott, and starred at Inglewood HS (Scott went to Morningside).

But Pierce has spent his entire career with the Celtics. This will be his 24th regular-season game against his hometown team. Pierce has averaged 25.2 points, 5.9 rebounds and 3.5 assists against the Lakers.

Incidentally, Kobe Bryant, who will be playing his 26th regular-season game against Boston, has averaged 25.5 points, 5.0 rebounds and 4.6 assists against the Lakers' traditional Eastern rivals.

The Lakers will be wearing their "Los Lakers" uniforms in a nationally televised game against Miami (El Heat) on March 4 as part of the NBA's Noche Latina (Latin Night) program.

These commemorative games mark the growing support of fans and players across Latin America and U.S. Hispanic communities with in-arena festivities, including distinctive NBA team uniforms and special telecasts. The Lakers-Miami game will be televised on KABC/7.

There 11 games total and seven will be nationally televised on ABC, ESPN and TNT.

This video clip shows that not all idiotic fans wear opposing team colors.

After the Lakers lost to Phoenix on Sunday, a proud Suns fan wanted to show off his orange hat to the greater Phoenix area during the postgame show. His hat gets minimal air time thanks to a overzealous Lakers fan.

The Lakers fan attempts to drape a No. 24 purple-and-gold jersey on the Suns fan and block out the hat. After the third try and an elbow in the fan, the Suns fan gets mad and throws a punch.

A young man from Belize, who happened to be a huge Lakers fan, was shot and killed after an argument eight years ago in home town of Belize City. As a tribute to his son and his favorite NBA team, his father decided to paint his grave marker purple and gold with basketballs on the sides.

When Matt Barnes saw Mavericks' Jason Terry push Lakers teammate Steve Blake to the floor after fouling him in the fourth quarter of Thursday's game, he couldn't stand by and watch.

As Blake went chest-to-chest with Terry, Barnes came to his teammate's defense and shoved Terry. Then sensing he should leave the area, Barnes said he headed toward the Lakers bench when he felt someone grab him from behind.

When he turned around, Barnes saw Mavs assistant coach Terry Stotts, who had the Lakers small forward in a bear hug in front of Dallas' bench.

"I'm just trying to get to our bench and someone is bear-hugging me," Barnes said. "I didn't realize it was a coach until I turned around. I definitely don't want to push a coach, but he was bear-hugging me right on their bench. I was just trying to get to our bench."